It's attempting to highlight the issues of social class, poverty and the vulnerable caused by poverty. It uses Christmas, a time when generally people seem to be nicer to each other, to act in a more charitable mood not just within the Christmas season but through the rest of the year as well.
The novella "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is set in Victorian England, in the fictional town of London. The story follows Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold-hearted miser who is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.
it teaches scrooge hoe much he misses christmas with his family
The ghosts in "A Christmas Carol" visited Scrooge in one night. The visits occurred on the night of Christmas Eve, with each of the three spirits appearing to teach Scrooge a lesson about redemption and the true meaning of Christmas.
So you can convey the story you are trying to show/teach.
Charles Dickens was inspired to write "A Christmas Carol" by the stark social inequalities he witnessed in Victorian society, as well as his desire to convey a message of compassion and redemption. The story was also influenced by Dickens' own childhood experiences and his belief in the power of Christmas to bring joy and hope to all.
A story's central idea or lesson is either what the story is trying to teach you (a moral, for example) or what it's about.The word is Theme. Aristotle calls it the Thought.
The ghosts in "A Christmas Carol" represent different aspects of Scrooge’s past, present, and future, aiming to teach him valuable lessons and guide him toward redemption. The Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge his own past, the Ghost of Christmas Present reveals the joys and struggles of those around him in the present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come warns him of a bleak future if he does not change his ways.
The four spirits who visit Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" are the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (or Future), and Jacob Marley's ghost. Each spirit helps to teach Scrooge a lesson about compassion and generosity.
Some fun Christmas cookbooks that you can use to teach kids are Christmas Cooks and Christmas Cooking for Dummies. Both are very helpful!
You read the book and you think to yourself what is it trying to tell or teach me, every book has a lesson it's just that some are more obvious then others. The objective may be in the form of a lesson its trying to teach you or what the story revovles around. The objective in the boy who cried wolf is a lesson teaching you not to lie or no one will beleive you or in the story charlottes web, the pig (wilbur) is trying to survive and the story revovles around what he does to survive. In the bible there a lot of parables with objectives hidden you can search on the web ' the lost lamb' and lots of searches will have the story will the explaination in this case the objective.
1. The professor is trying to teach his student about independent thought.
No, a theme is what an author is trying to teach you...